Example sentences of "what he had [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 2 | Dennis would never let me forget what he had done for me , and come September I had nothing to look forward to except another year of slavery on Clive 's treadmill . |
| 3 | Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers . |
| 4 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 5 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 6 | What he had felt for Kee had left ‘ a large deep wound which is healed but is still sensitive . ’ |
| 7 | Constance said she was too hard on herself , but Constance did n't understand what Brian had to put up with , what he had sacrificed for her . |
| 8 | She was a phantom , a shadow of what he had longed for . |
| 9 | Getting her jeans off in two seconds flat in a stable was not what he had visualized for her . |
| 10 | But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for . |
| 11 | After all , that was what he had come for . |
| 12 | He was walking in and out of the bays , studying the bookshelves as though that was what he had come for . |